This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 382 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 382 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison of one thing to another using the words like or as A) Simile. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. An action movie trying to be exciting.Exciting is the ..... A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 3. "She is ..... as a juggler / with a black ball and a white ball" ~ MEDEA A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. A word or phase used over and over again for emphasis A) Narrative poem. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 5. Type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person A) Free verse. B) Sonnet. C) Narrative verse. D) Lyric poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric poetry. 6. Define Ontario A) -A word that imitates the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to; words that sound like what they describe or name. B) Exaggerated used for emphasis or effect. C) Describing animals, nature, inanimate objects, or ideas with human characteristics, abilities, reactions, or emotions. D) Vivid, descriptive language that appeals to the senses; taste, touch, smell, hear, see, feel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -A word that imitates the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to; words that sound like what they describe or name. 7. Which type of figurative language gives human qualities to nonhuman objects? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. The formation of mental images, figures, or likeness of things or images A) Inversion. B) Imagery. C) Lyric poetry. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 9. Poem with a musical rhythm that explores strong emotional feelings A) Narrative. B) Lyrical. C) Concrete. D) Diamonte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical. 10. A couplet has two lines of verse, that has a rhyme scheme of ..... A) A-B. B) B-A. C) B-B. D) A-A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A-A. 11. Spelling how words sound. Crackle, pop, fizz, zoom A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 12. What term refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Epanalepsis. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 13. The English teacher told her class, "You really need to proofread your work, or otherwise people will find you not very credible." The teacher's assignment had 12 typos in it. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 14. Which term refers to an exaggerated statement used for emphasis? A) Hyperbole. B) Parallelism. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. In this poem, what matters is the number of syllables. A) Haiku. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 16. The voice or persona of the poem is called the- A) Author. B) Writer. C) Speaker. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 17. "They covered themselves with dust and glory." A) Zeugma. B) Chiasmus. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zeugma. 18. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. A) Rhythm. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 19. A figure of speech that does not use like or as to compare two unlike things A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of which literary term? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books